Northampton General Hospital has signed up to a national campaign that aims to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world. The Sign up to Safety campaign asks NHS organisations to deliver a three-year action plan to strengthen patient safety, reduce harm for patients and save lives.

Patients receiving radiotherapy treatment at Northampton General Hospital are set to benefit from a £5.5m million investment in new equipment and facilities. Building work is underway at the hospital as part of a replacement programme which will see three new linear accelerator (LINAC) machines. The first will be housed in a purpose-designed converted building connected to the main hospital site by a new glass walkway.

NGH is currently seeking a new Non-Executive Director and an Associate Non-Executive Director to share their skills and expertise and is keen to hear from individuals with expertise in either strategic organisational development and change management or strategic information management.

Northampton General Hospital is asking anyone planning to visit its hospital to stay away if they or their family members have had diarrhoea, vomiting or 'flu-like' symptoms in the last four days.The request is designed to help keep the 'winter vomiting bug' or norovirus away from vulnerable patients and staff who could pass it on. Symptoms of norovirus include diarrhoea and vomiting and, just like flu, the virus can seriously affect vulnerable patients.

We want to make sure that the services we provide are of the best possible quality, and we would like to you to take part in a survey to tell us what you think. To ensure that the services we deliver not only meet the needs of those we support, but are of the highest standards, we must continually measure, challenge and improve the quality of what we deliver.

Kettering General Hospital, Northampton General Hospital and Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) are jointly hosting a recruitment open day in London next week to showcase career opportunities for nurses and promote the county as a great place to live and work.

We'll support your career development whether your heart lies with emergency care, general nursing, midwifery or any of our areas of specialism. Come to our Nurse Recruitment Open Day to find out more.